Three projects awarded PlantLink seed money!

A decision has been taken on awarding PlantLink seed money for 2018. It was a difficult task to find 3 projects to fund among a total of 17 applications, especially since there were many strong ones. In their decision, the steering committee has based on the three external reiewers aimed to cover several of PlantLink’s 6 themes.

We are happy to announce that the following projects will be funded by PlantLink:

Main Applicant

Co-applicants

Title

Amount granted (SEK)

Magne Friberg, LU (BI)

Kristina Karlsson-Green SLU, Anna Runemark LU

Plant genome duplications and the evolution of plant-insect interactions

499438

Mats Hansson, LU (BI)

Åsa Grimberg/Per Hofvander SLU, Nick Srijovski/Olof Olsson LTH

Development of a 3D storage-carbon mapping pipeline for Swedish cereal seeds using a multimodal image analysis approach

448680

Olivier Van Aken, LU (BI)

Sung-Yong Kim SLU (VF), Nick Srijovski LTH

A molecular & phenotypical characterisation of ‘touch’ responses in cereals

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